[cabfpub] Final minutes of CA/B Forum meeting 2024-05-09

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Attendees

Aaron Gable - (Let's Encrypt), Abhishek Bhat - (eMudhra), Adam Jones - (Microsoft), Adriano Santoni - (Actalis S.p.A.), Andrea Holland - (VikingCloud), Ben Wilson - (Mozilla), Brianca Martin - (Amazon), Brittany Randall - (GoDaddy), Bruce Morton - (Entrust), Chad Dandar - (Cisco Systems), Clint Wilson - (Apple), Corey Bonnell - (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen - (OATI), Dimitris Zacharopoulos - (HARICA), Dong Wha Shin - (MOIS (Ministry of Interior and Safety) of the republic of Korea), Doug Beattie - (GlobalSign), Enrico Entschew - (D-TRUST), Georgy Sebastian - (Amazon), Gregory Tomko - (GlobalSign), Inaba Atsushi - (GlobalSign), Inigo Barreira - (Sectigo), Jaime Hablutzel - (OISTE Foundation), Johnny Reading - (GoDaddy), Jos Purvis - (Fastly), Keshava Nagaraju - (eMudhra), Kiran Tummala - (Microsoft), Luis Cervantes - (GoDaddy), Mads Henriksveen - (Buypass AS), Marco Schambach - (IdenTrust), Michelle Coon - (OATI), Miguel Sanchez - (Google), Mrugesh Chandarana - (IdenTrust), Nargis Mannan - (VikingCloud), Nate Smith - (GoDaddy), Naveen Kumar - (eMudhra), Nicol So - (CommScope), Nome Huang - (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly - (SSL.com), RIch Smith - (DigiCert), Rollin Yu - (TrustAsia), Scott Rea - (eMudhra), Stephen Davidson - (DigiCert), Steven Deitte - (GoDaddy), Tadahiko Ito - (SECOM Trust Systems), Tathan Thacker - (IdenTrust), Tim Hollebeek - (DigiCert), Tobias Josefowitz - (Opera Software AS), Trevoli Ponds-White - (Amazon), Tsung-Min Kuo - (Chunghwa Telecom), Wayne Thayer - (Fastly), Wendy Brown - (US Federal PKI Management Authority)

Administrivia
- Aaron Gable taking minutes

- Roll call taken via Webex
- Dimitris Zacharopoulos read the note-well
- Minutes from April 25 approved

Server Certificate Working Group update (Inigo Barreira)
- Continued triage of GitHub issues
- Patent Advisory Group created as a result of exclusion notice filed on SC-070 had its first meeting, elected Ben Wilson as chair, and drafted and sent an email requesting clarification from GoDaddy
- Currently soliciting F2F agenda topics
- The EVGs have published a new version based on Ballot SC-072

Validation Subcommittee update (Corey Bonnell)
- Continued discussion of identifying Delegated Third Parties in validation methods

Code Signing Certificate Working Group update (Bruce Morton)
- Still working on a ballot to pull various EV requirements into the CSBRs
- Ran into some difficulties regarding Organization Identifier, so will probably leave that field as-is for now
- Also still updating the Timestamp ballot
- Discussing reducing the maximum validity of code-signing certificates, from 39 months to 15 months
- Discussing unifying EV and non-EV code-signing certificates into just one type
- Still finalizing F2F agenda, expect to discuss the topics above
- Dimitris points out that the CSBRs reference a specific version of the NetSec requirements, and will also have to do a ballot to update that version

Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee update (Jos Purvis)
- Working through issues with mailing lists, considering upgrading mailman
- Ran an experiment to convert a list to Google Groups, which mostly works, but involves rewriting headers
- One solution would be to change MX records and do all mail delivery via Google, but would likely result in a temporary disruption of mail delivery
- Intend to create a test plan to propose to all other working groups
- Lots of documentation work, which is a Forum-wide effort
- Intend to set up the IPR Subcommittee on Google Groups as a test subject, since it is intended to be a short-lived group

S/MIME Certificate Working Group update (Stephen Davidson)
- Ballot SMC-06 exits IPR at the end of this week, has effective date in September
- Upcoming ballot to create parity with recent BRs logging changes
- Some concerns about shorter validity periods from smartcard providers due to more difficult provisioning
- New certificate consumer member: Posteo, a webmail provider

NetSec Working Group update (Clint Wilson)
- Ballot NS-03 is in IP Review period
- Ballot to update Section 4 still being workshopped, particularly for clarity around cadence/timelines of things like penetration tests

IPR Subcommittee update (Ben Wilson)
- Ballot FORUM-022 would establish this new subcommittee
- Ballot is currently in discussion period, no comments so far

Bylaws update preparation (Dimitris Zacharopoulos)
- No update

F2F#62 agenda preparation (Dimitris Zacharopoulos)
- KeyFactor will not be able to present their plans for a linting engine
- Still soliciting additional topics

Any other business
- Trevoli Ponds-White reports that Amazon has been asked to move the October F2F from Oct 1-3 to Oct 8-10, due to a major holiday

Next meeting
- May 23 (not cancelled)
- Will start 1 hour after the ServerCert WG call would normally start

Meeting adjourned